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Excerpt from Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Century: Described by Archibald Forbes, George A. Henty, Major Arthur Griffiths, and Other Well-Known Writers The authors who have contributed to these vol umes are men qualified to deal with the sub j ects allotted to them, and their stories may be accepted as historically accurate. Most of them are sol diers or war correspondents who have seen service and all are more or less military experts; with the exception perhaps of Sir Walter Scott, whose account of the Battle of Waterloo is chosen for the sake of the excellence of its literary style. The story With Wellington in the Peninsular War is taken from George A. Henty's The Youn g Buglers the historic scenes and events which Henty describes are not only made inter esting by the personal element he infuses into his narrative but they may be accepted as authen tie, for he was a careful and conscientious writer, and each of his historical novels involved months of labor and research before he even put pen to paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.